I love this movie so much

Too much of everything

Fresh and Exciting

Don't Believe the Hype

Wow. What can I say. I've seen Sideways before but now, when I'm a bit wiser, I cannot but admire this piece of art as a subtle elaboration of the 21st century human condition.Minutes 56-59 in the movie are the soul of humanity at this day and age. If one doesn't feel the multi-layered emotional gravitas of the characters and what they're trying to achieve then there is something wrong with one.Great writing, fabulous soundtrack, and amazing locations, and Miles is so "Italian" he doesn't seem to be acting all that the emotional turmoil.

In my opinion this is the best of Paul Giamatti movies he fit in the role , really adapted with the character like it's his own reality and with the wittingly written screen-play by Alexander Payne oh god that's just awesome ,most conversations of the depressed character have implication give you the weepy/funny feelings simultaneously that's just smart he really deserved the Oscar , the ending is spectacular make you still feel sad with assist of the soundtrack running on the background at the same time gives you hope and make you think about what's going to happen ...i recommend this movie for all drama seekers over there. cheers.

OK so Sideways is kind of a complex film. I look at this movie in two parts. And that's how I'm going to review it. It stars Thomas Haden church, Paul Giamatti, Virginia Madsen, and Sandra Oh. The movie basically is centered around Paul and church's road trip before church gets married. They meet two woman (Madsen and Oh) and these women get close to each of the men (Madsen with giamatti) and (Oh with Church). The chemistry between Madsen and Giamatti is very good and since they are both such good actors it is very believable. The two parts are those two relationships that go on in the film. I got pretty frustrated with Thomas Haden church's character, simply put, he's just a two timing jerk, a complete loser. Haden Church isn't a bad actor at all, and his isn't bad, I wouldn't say it's Oscar worthy, but personally I just really despised the character he played. He was just so damn annoying. I like Madsen and Giamatti's characters though, I liked their part of the movie, but that's the ONLY part I liked. I didn't like any other part of the movie, if the whole movie only focused on that, then I most likely would have loved it. But it didn't. And that's why I'm giving the film a 5, I honestly wanted to eliminate Thomas Haden Church from the film altogether. This is considered a comedy-drama film but there was no actual comedy in my opinion, I didn't even chuckle once at the "funny/comedic" moments. Some of the dramatic stuff worked though. 5/10 overall.

The tittle of this review can really tell you what remained with me by the end of the movie. Some wine and some lies. Lying to your future wife, lying to your weekend lover, lying to your best friend and at the end of the day you lie to your own self. On the one hand the desire to not wanting all the lies and the deceptions and on the other lies and deceptions are all its given. What's the meaning of this? What is really the message here? That this is life when you grow up? The heck with that. If that's the case, Peter Pan come and rescue me.